As announced on the forum, MMOG's blogs were upgraded to the latest stable version from Jelsoft. There were quite a few changes, so I'd like to outline some of them and how to use them:

First, a change was inadvertently made to the default permissions. Until today, unregistered guests were not allowed to view your blog. You may want to change these; they cannot be indexed in Google if guests cannot see them and pingbacks will not work properly.

To make this change,...

If you see this and tl;dr you probably shouldn't be looking at blogs... gb2/forum/

The MMOG Blogs received mixed reactions. The vast majority have been positive and it's definitely more than we expected. A few users expressed privacy concerns with moderation which we addressed in our moderation announcement. Some members expressed concern that we're not trying to be a fansite - but rather a "Facebook" for MMO gamers.

The latter group are right, to a point....

I didn’t post much during the last week. Last Friday night I got hella sick - throwing up all night among other things. I thought I had gotten food poisoning since the symptoms were akin to a case of salmonella (though much more tame) I got back in 2000. It left me really drained Saturday morning but I was feeling better throughout the day so I spent the day with Bob. When she got the same thing that night I realized it wasn’t food poisoning; that isn’t contagious, heh. So Sunday was a day of us...

There, Cath, I used a new image.

I’ve been extremely busy over the last few days. Last week I had so much going on with work projects and then coming home to work on MOG it was insane. Saturday and Sunday didn’t slow down one bit. From the moment I received a proof of concept from sunchip, I went into hardcore development mode. Saturday, Bob and I went to see The Hulk which was pretty good. I never saw the first one because no one said it was good and I didn’t intend to see the...